Marianne Alopaeus (9 October 1918 – 10 November 2014) was a Finnish-born writer who published in

Swedish Swedish or ' may refer to: Anything from or related to Sweden, a country in Northern Europe. Or, specifically: * Swedish language, a North Germanic language spoken primarily in Sweden and Finland ** Swedish alphabet, the official alphabet used by ...

Biography

Marianne Rosenbröijer was born in Ekenäs in southern Finland on 9 October 1918.Marianne Alopaeus
Nordic Women, accessed October 2012 She married in 1940 and her first novel was published in 1945 under her married name. The following year, she moved to Sweden. ''Mörkrets kärna'' ("The Dark Core") is her best known work and it deals with a woman who rejects the priorities of her children to concentrate on intellectual pursuits. The work is thought to be influenced by the style and approach of the existentialist

Simone de Beauvoir Simone Lucie Ernestine Marie Bertrand de Beauvoir (, ; ; 9 January 1908 – 14 April 1986) was a French existentialist philosopher, writer, social theorist, and feminist activist. Though she did not consider herself a philosopher, and even th ...

. This book was nominated for the

Nordic Council Literature Prize The Nordic Council Literature Prize is awarded for a work of literature written in one of the languages of the Nordic countries, that meets "high literary and artistic standards". Established in 1962, the prize is awarded every year, and is worth ...

. In 1947, she was awarded the Finnish

Thanks for the Book Award The Thanks for the Book Award, (''Kiitos kirjasta -mitali'' in Finnish and ''Tack för boken-medaljen'' in Swedish), is a Finnish literary prize that has been presented since 1966 by the Organization of the Booksellers’ Association of Finland (Kir ...

(Kiitos kirjasta -mitali in Finnish). Her books have been translated into Finnish and Norwegian. She also lived in the United States and in France and moved to Sweden again in 1973. Ten years later, she wrote ''Drabbad av Sverige'' which deals with what it is to be Swedish. Only a week before her death, she was moved back to Finland, and she died in Helsinki in November 2014.

Works

* 1945 – ''Uppbrott'' * 1950 – ''Dröm utan slut'' * 1953 – ''Utanför'' * 1959 – ''Avsked i Augusti'' * 1965 – ''Mörkrets kärna'' * 1971 – ''Betraktelser kring en gräns'' (a collection of essays) * 1983 – ''Drabbad av Sverige'' (a collection of essays)

References

1918 births 2014 deaths Finnish writers in Swedish Finnish women writers Finnish expatriates in France Finnish expatriates in Sweden Finnish expatriates in the United States Thanks for the Book Award winners {{Finland-writer-stub